Wells County was hit as recently as 2026-07-16, 15 days ago. Wells County has recorded hail in nearly every year on the archive. The largest stone on record here is 3 inches, a teacup and 3 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2021-08-09 near Bowdon.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in North Dakota. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2026-07-16, around Bremen. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Wells County addresses inside a hail swath above your size threshold into a door-knock list you can export, scoped to your approved markets.
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See call-center options ->NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has logged 31 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.8 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 55 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 2 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2025, with 4 hail days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 12 days since 2022, against 1.6 a year before that.
5 of the 31 days reached 2 inches or more -- 16%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2026-07-09. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in June, not July. 14 of the 31 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of North Dakota, see the North Dakota hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Harvey -- 8 of the county's 31 hail days -- then Bowdon (7), Bremen (7), Fessenden (5) and Chaseley (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Hamberg, Heaton, Sykeston and Hurdsfield on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Harvey | 5 | 3.00″ |
| Bremen | 5 | 1.75″ |
| Fessenden | 4 | 2.75″ |
| Bowdon | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Chaseley | 2 | 2.50″ |
The season runs June through August: 29 of the 31 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (94%). July is the single busiest month, with 13 of them (42%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in September, outside that window. Reports span 4 of the 12 calendar months; the other 8 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| June | 9 |
| July | 13 |
| August | 7 |
| September | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Bremen. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-07-09 | 2.50″ | 3 |
| 2025-09-12 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-07-14 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2025-07-09 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2025-06-27 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2024-08-28 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-07-18 | 1.00″ | 1 |
The colored swath is NOAA's MRMS radar estimate of the largest hail per ~1 km cell; the dots are SPC ground reports. Yellow is about an inch, red 1.5 to 2″, purple 2″ and up (hail size vs roof damage). On this county's worst day the reports reached 3 inches, which is the purple band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
The nearest counties with a page of their own: Sheridan County (15 hail days), Eddy County (35) and Benson County (39). Wells County sits in between.
Sheridan County · Eddy County · Benson County
Back to the North Dakota hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Wells County, North Dakota only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.